Pianist Arie Vardi teaches a master class today at 10 in Harris Concert Hall.
At 10:30 at the Pitkin County Library, it’s Tunes and Tales, with stories and music for the 4-9 set. The program is free, and children must be accompanied by an adult.
The Aspen Community Church is the place to be at noon today for a free Spotlight Recital showcasing some of the summer’s finest students in a wide range of repertoire.
Chapel Chamber Music is offered free every Thursday at 4:15 throughout the Festival, presenting student quartets, trios and other ensembles in the intimate setting of the Aspen Chapel.
Tonight at 7 at the Wheeler Opera House is the opening of Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette, presented by the Aspen Opera Theater Center and directed by Edward Berkeley. George Manahan conducts this exquisite work based on Shakespeare’s tragedy, the only one of a couple of dozen operatic settings of the play that remains in the repertoire.
The piano duo of Orion Weiss and Shai Wosner perform Legends by Dvorak, Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite and La Valse, and works by Schumann and Brahms at 8 tonight in Harris Concert Hall.
At 8:30, it’s a free String Showcase in Edlis Neeson Hall on the Bucksbaum Campus.
